I had a Galaxy S, the original Samsung Galaxy phone. It was terrible for making calls, had to use speaker, the gps sucked, couldn't get a fix almost anywhere, that made directions via maps useless. It got all these great reviews though. Gotta think it's because all the bullshit reviewers want free stuff to review. I have a Galaxy Note 2. It got great reviews too, of course it did... It works, sort of. If I touch the metallic looking edge of the phone it takes that as a touchscreen tap and does random stuff. That means there is almost no chance I can put it in my pocket without the touchscreen being activated. If I install an app the side effects can be awful, like the phone ringer is off and I miss calls and it requires all sorts of fiddling to find out what obscure setting in what obscure menu got fuckedup by the new app. The whole android thing is a bad idea from the start. Anybody can make an app, register with Google for $25 and nobody checks to see if their apps work or mess up the phone. Apple checks all those apps, and charges a lot for a phone... So I'm wondering if the Windows Phone isn't a good thing? Android has a choice of krappy little meaningless, hard to distinguish icons or widgets that take half the screen and do almost nothing. Windows has the resizeable tiles that actually give info at a glance and look good... Nokia makes some windows phones with astounding cameras too...
The thing about Android, especially Samsung's version of it, is that there's a ton of features and settings that you must fully learn and understand if you want the device to work like it's supposed to. Otherwise, if you put the phone in your pocket before turning the screen off and then the touchscreen gets touched just by you walking, there are a lot of settings and other things that could accidentally get turned on or off. You gotta really know your phone well to get it back to where it originally was before the screwups. It doesn't sound like you're much on figuring out what went wrong, so maybe your best bet is an iPhone 6. I wouldn't touch that Windows Phone with a ten-foot pole. I don't know a single person that has one, so there can't be many apps for it. I use the Galaxy Note 4 and love the thing.
I'm dissatisfied to the max with the flawed basic idea that we all want to continually beta test apps... and i load everything relating to radio hobby and it's nearly all very amateurishly written apparently... I'd have to have two android phones to continue in this vein, one to screw up with bad apps and one for everyday use... It's not all that hard to go through the settings and get things right but I don't know something is wrong until the phone makes me suffer... I'll keep it for play and get a Windows phone for day to day... I like the look and feel of the windows phone, I run windows on all the computers, they have the best cloud service, the windows maps/directions is said to be superior to googles', only need a weather app afaik... Problem solved, thanks for the input
I've had my S4 for a while, and the issues while in your pocket can be a hassle. But they aren't enough to deter me from loving the phone. Best one I've had, by far. But I have never had an iPhone, and my daughter and everyone else I know who has one says they will never go back to android. I am willing to give them a shot for my next phone.
the main problem I have with Android is not the underlying OS but the "personalized" crapp manufacturers put on top of it so their phone stands out from the rest. Best Android I've had is the Nexus 5...it has a clean OS on it w/o the BS like what Samsung loads onto their phones. Phones I currently use are the 6Plus and an LG Flex, because I am old and need the bigger screens. To me, Apple and Android are fairly interchangeable.
I have a Nexus 7 Tablet that I liked until I dropped it... So I got this Winbook today, I'm thinking "this has gotta be great" for some reason. The thing is killing my eyes, it's just wrong in that area but I thought Windows on a tablet or phone might be better than Android... forgetit, I can't login to gmail, so I download an app on a one day trial basis... can't find the icon to try it or uninstall it! There are a zillion apps really but not what I want that much, the possiblility exists that Windows 10 will have the ability to run Android apps with a layer translation thing like Wine for Linux but even if it does I doubt it will work well enough... I'm such a cheapskate, I'll probably wake up one day, slap my forehead and say "I could have had an iPhone!". I got the Note 2 because the iPhones were so little but now they came out with the larger ones.. hmmm
I am more than happy and more than capable of fiddling with and resolving any issue on any phone or computer, but .... When I am extremely busy with work and overwhelmed with the responsibilities of being a husband and also a father to two children under 3, I don't have time to fiddle. Give me a powerful, well designed and stable phone that just works when I need it to work! The iPhone has got its competitors beat overwhelmingly in this domain.
Microsoft reaches out to Android, Apple app developers http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mi...oid-apple-app-developers-2015-04-29-141034023
I went with Cyanogen Mod on my Galaxy 3. Definitely prefer the open source OSes vs. overstuffed, bloated corporate stuff. The suits think that shoving weirdo features into phones sets them apart from the crowd. And for typical nontechies, they are probably right.
Special price on a large tablet with a super display. http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...y-tab-s-10-5-is-280-220-off-with-a-free-case/